![]() I have known for a while now that our minds are great at creating imaginary comfort zones - telling us to stop way before our actual limits. Whenever it’s telling me to push the breaks and stop, I do the exact opposite and push harder - going even further than I had planned initially. What Griffin says here reminds me of the Resistance that Pressfield talks about or Julien Smith’s Flinching.Įver since I read their books I’ve been using that little voice in my head as a guide. You can walk away from it afterward knowing that you surpassed a barrier that makes most humans curl into the fetal position and weep for Jesus. You prove to yourself that pain is just that, pain. But by pushing past the pain, you become progressively tougher. Running at that speed for that duration doesn’t come naturally to anyone - it’s hideous, absolutely horrible. ![]() Every other day, I’ll rev that sucker up to twelve miles an hour and do three five-minute intervals. Personally, I use the treadmill to accomplish this. How do you develop this kind of toughness? The answer is simple - do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don’t. ![]() Here’s a great paragraph on developing mental toughness I read in Got Fight?, Forrest Griffin’s book on… well, everything. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |